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10,000

Number of Baby Boomers who will turn 65 each day, for the next 17 years

90

Megabytes, the average monthly data usage by teens age 13 to 17 in the third quarter of 2010

321

Megabytes, the average monthly data usage by teens age 13 to 17 in the third quarter of 2011

327

Consecutive months that the temperature of the entire globe has exceeded the 20th century average

33

Percent of the summer sea ice in the Arctic that has disappeared

$21 trillion

The cash shielded from taxation in tax havens by the world’s wealthiest people

$21 trillion

The combined GDPs of the United States and Japan

11.1

Percent, the lowest poverty level in American history, reached in 1973

15.1

Percent the poverty level today

Sources: Businessweek; Rolling Stone; Tax Justice Network; Chicago Tribune